Re: Citations for ragged (natural) right margin

[HBacheler -at- aol -dot- com]

All together now,

Let's learn 'kerning',  'leading', and Knuth's answer to hyphenation.

Typography and typesetting  are getting into the weeds.

Left-justified, right-justified, centered,  ragged-right,

Now we have to get into styles, and setup 'paragraph  styles', lead-in 
headers, justification of outlining numbering.

Having  never worked with the 'advanced' word processors - such as 
FrameMaker,  PageMaker, and other 'systems' (vs 'application'), I cannot take  sides.

However,  Word does what I want, when I want it.

I  imagine it is the same for others that do not have the 'luxury' of the 
'advanced  products'.

I have worked with typesetters, used Word,  WordPerfect,  AmiPro.  They all 
seemed to have the same 'challenges'' when trying to meet  the 
'idiosyncrasies'/'needs' of the reader.

I remember using nroff,  troff, wordstar, and a mainframe computer to 
generate my documents.

It is  the case - "when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything is a  
nail."  You make do with what you got.

A different slant on the  'formatting'/'justification' of text.  Will the 
document you write be  readily 'transportable' to another platform - example Word 
2003 on PC to Word  2000 on a Mac?

What about putting your text into PowerPoint, MS Project,  or Visio?

I have needed to do that.

I could go on and on about the  challenges that I have come up against in 
moving documents from one  'document-generator' to another.

As an independent contractor, I take  what I get and do my best to 
'conform'/'comply' with my client.

Some food  for thought, and some good discussion.

Harry M. Bacheler,  Jr

Consultant
Jack of all trades, Master of several  


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